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Latitude: 51.2133 / 51°12'47"N
Longitude: -0.8009 / 0°48'3"W
OS Eastings: 483849
OS Northings: 146695
OS Grid: SU838466
Mapcode National: GBR DB3.VQF
Mapcode Global: VHDY2.2RFR
Plus Code: 9C3X657X+8J
Entry Name: Cobbett Chest Tomb and Area Railings Immediately North of Church of St Andrew
Listing Date: 13 February 1991
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1272752
English Heritage Legacy ID: 447906
ID on this website: 101272752
Location: St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Waverley, Surrey, GU9
County: Surrey
District: Waverley
Civil Parish: Farnham
Built-Up Area: Farnham
Traditional County: Surrey
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Surrey
Church of England Parish: Farnham
Church of England Diocese: Guildford
Tagged with: Chest tomb
SU 8346 NE FARNHAM CHURCH YARD
5/401 Cobbett Chest Tomb and area railings immediately North of Church of St Andrew
GV
II
Chest tomb. Circa 1835. Stone, partly rendered. Large rectangular chest with moulded base and lid, the lid with weathered top. Each end has double-recessed 4-centred rusticated arch panel containing patee fitched cross and date. The sides have recessed inscription plaques and flanking corner piers with double recessed rusticated round-headed niche containing upturned torch. The chest stands on large ashlar plinth with cast-iron area railings of intersecting pattern with cresting and polygonal corner standards.
William Cobbett, essayist, politician and agriculturalist, was born 1762 in Farnham, he was the son of a labourer, and died at Normandy Farm, near Guildford in 1835.
Listing NGR: SU8384946695
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